Someone made the school a plaque
of names. I find the one I wanted
for my never-son: bronze prince
stirring a pond with all his brothers.
My family came here from a country
I am not allowed to visit ...
Boy by Maya Pindyck
LAR Online, Poetry
As parts of our lives speed faster into the digital world, analog forms once deemed old-fashioned have reemerged in communities that value preserving something of the past. Rising out of not just nostalgia, but a pursuit ...
Saint Père Books
LAR Online, Uncategorized
Reviewed by Maggie Trapp
The Multitude
Hannah Faith Notess
Southern Indiana Review Press, December 2015
76 pp., $14.95
ISBN: 978-1-930508330
In The Multitude, winner of the Michael Waters Poetry Prize, ...
Review: The Multitude by Hannah Faith Notess
Book Reviews, LAR Online
After the Explosion
All the water mains burst
Forth, singing
The rats ran
Everywhere, squealing in
Rhyme, and the cockroaches
Tweeted to their neighbors while
Heaven turned itself into Hell on
Earth. From where ...
Three Poems by Laurel Blossom
LAR Online, Poetry
Reviewed by Joanna R. Demkiewicz
Goodbye, Sweet Girl: A Story of Domestic Violence and Survival
A Memoir by Kelly Sundberg
HarperCollins, June 2018
$12.99, 272 pp.
ISBN-13: 978-0062497673
In 2014, ...
Review: Goodbye, Sweet Girl by Kelly Sundberg
Book Reviews, LAR Online
At 3 a.m. Dad wants to pick the strawberries. Outside the season
is wrong, the trees a tangle of twigs against a brain-gray sky. I won’t lie:
If we’re going to speak of strawberries, Mom and I would like him to ...
I Won’t Lie by Jennifer Wheelock
LAR Online, Poetry
Reviewed by Doug Ramspeck
Ends of the Earth
Poetry by Kate Partridge
University of Alaska Press, 2017
$14.95, 70 pp.
ISBN-13: 978-1602233324
My younger college students sometimes seem dismayed that ...
Review: Ends of the Earth by Kate Partridge
Book Reviews, LAR Online
I cut myself upon the thought of you
And yet I come back to it again and again
– Amy Lowell, “Granadilla”
Gift of love and light
small and tidy in the salt
air, or thick and hot
beside the coal ...
Elegy for One Life Lived Within Another by Brianna Noll
LAR Online, Poetry
Michelle wasn’t thinking about her little sister as she crossed Euclid Avenue that evening. She wasn’t thinking about trick-or-treating or her lazy costume, a black fright wig and bloody lips. She wasn’t ...
Halloween, Shaker Heights, 1992 by Thomas Price
Fiction, LAR Online
